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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/oezi13 on 2025-11-25 13:35:17+00:00.
A classic tale of scratch your own itch: I recently missed sending two important emails. I had finished writing them but got distracted and didn’t realize they were still open until the next day. What was the cause: The Windows 11 taskbar has too little space and collapses the Thunderbird compose icon with the app icon and the stock Alt+Tab switcher doesn’t show icons, highlights or anything when there are just too many windows open.
What I wanted is a Alt+Tab replacement which allows me to highlight or pin windows, which I need to pay attention to. Luckily I found Switcheroo which is excellent little Alt+Tab replacement with hotkey search. Unfortunately, Switcheroo is abandoned since 5 years and around 30 forks have spun up fixing various issues. So I took the current head branch and started re-integrating forks and implementing my idea of pinning windows and also grouping them by most-used apps.
After two weeks of work the result is available at github.com/coezbek/switcheroo.
Switcheroo++ now supports showing more than 500 windows without serious performance limitations. It has dark mode, UWP app support and lots of tiny options such as support for mouse-wheel, middle-click and whatnot. Switcheroo++ is not a task launcher such as Command Palette.
Your feedback would be appreciated.
Original Switcheroo can be found at github.com/kvakulo/Switcheroo
License: GPLv3